Re: christmas custom/new years bread?

[Guest guest]

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does your family make a special bread for the new year? My Bro in law is from

Venezuela and the family tradition for the new year is to make this special

bread. it is so filling it is more like a meal. , my BIL, makes it every

year. He ends up making it at Christmas too, since everyone likes it so much.

just wondering,

Re: christmas custom

As some of you know I am from Venezuela. In Venezuela we do not have

Santa Claus we have Baby Jesus. Every Christmas Eve my mom would fix

a delicious meal consisting of hen soup, roasted leg of pork, with

the breast of the hen she would make chicken salad and a Venezuelan

tamale called hallacas, not your regular Mexican Tamale, for desert

she would make flan and rice pudding, yum. We would go to bed early

because we wanted Christmas to come ASAP. I wouldn't go to sleep as

long as I could but finally I would fall asleep. I was sure that

Baby Jesus had some magic powder that he would throw on my eyes and

make me go to sleep.

Today, with my family, I still have my traditional Venezuelan Xmas

Eve dinner and invite my very close and dear friends and on the 25th

we go to my husband's family, where my mother in law makes the best

raviolis, my husband is from an italian family. They are 9 kids in

his family and it is total pandemonium. For the first time in 9

years! We are going to spend Xmas in Venezuela, knock on wood!

> When I was growing up, we always did most of our present opening on

Christmas eve. This was hard because my dad was a mail carrier, and

often didn't get home until 7:00 that night, and we had to wait for

him, then eat the traditional oyster stew, then open presents.

Christmas morning, there'd be something more from Santa, then we'd go

to relatives houses and have more christmas there.

>

> When I got married, I always wanted to try not opening stuff til

christmas morning, but too many of the kids (including the one I

married) can't wait that long. In fact, opening stuff got pushed so

far forward, that they often get opened early in the afternoon of the

24th.

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> Dori Ownbey... " If I haven't grown up by now, I'm never going to. "

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[Guest guest]

Yes! It is call Pan de Jamon and it has ham,raisins, olives. During

the Christmas season you find it in every bakery. I also make it but

is not like the ones from the bakeries, but it does the trick.

> > When I was growing up, we always did most of our present

opening on

> Christmas eve. This was hard because my dad was a mail carrier,

and

> often didn't get home until 7:00 that night, and we had to wait

for

> him, then eat the traditional oyster stew, then open presents.

> Christmas morning, there'd be something more from Santa, then

we'd go

> to relatives houses and have more christmas there.

> >

> > When I got married, I always wanted to try not opening stuff

til

> christmas morning, but too many of the kids (including the one I

> married) can't wait that long. In fact, opening stuff got pushed

so

> far forward, that they often get opened early in the afternoon of

the

> 24th.

> >

> > Dori Ownbey... " If I haven't grown up by now, I'm never going

to. "

> >

> >

> >